The Other Side Says Your Evidence Is A Deepfake. Now What?

In several recent high-profile trials, defendants have sought to cast doubt on the reliability of video evidence by suggesting that artificial intelligence may have surreptitiously altered the videos.

These challenges are the most notable examples yet of defendants leveraging the growing prevalence in society of AI-manipulated media — often called deepfakes — to question evidence that, until recently, many thought was nearly unassailable.